Date: 11th April 2001

Costner and Castro Go To The Movies


American actor KEVIN COSTNER and Cuban dictator FIDEL CASTRO watched Costner's new film THIRTEEN DAYS (2000) on yesterday (10APR01) and got on like a house on fire.

The two men chatted until 2am discussing over dinner the star's cinematic version and the Cuban president's real-life role in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.

Costner had just checked into his Havana hotel on Monday (9APR01) when he and members of the cast and crew were invited to REVOLUTION PALACE for a special screening in front of Cuba's political hierarchy.

Costner's spokesman, STEPHEN RIVERS, said, "I shouldn't be speaking for the president, but he responded to the film very favourably, and we had a very interesting discussion afterward." (PDD/WNR)

Source: WENN